This is a really interesting question but there is simply no way to answer it. The Bible says nothing about what language Adam and Eve spoke. The Genesis record is written in Hebrew but this does not tell us what Adam and Eve spoke.[Continue Reading...]

God said Adam and Eve would die on the day they ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (Gen. 2:17), but they didn’t die that day. Does this mean the “death” God referred to was different to literal death (e.g., bodily decay or a separation from God)? Fact 1: God told [...][Continue Reading...]

And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat (Gen 3:13 [KJV]) The English word “beguiled” means “to charm someone, perhaps deceptively”. The Hebrew word here is nasha meaning “to lead astray”, “to delude” or “to seduce”. [...][Continue Reading...]

This question assumes a literal interpretation of Genesis 2-3, which not all interpreters accept but we will accept for the sake of this question. This is a question about a hypothetical scenario so I can only give a hypothetical answer. The command God gave Adam concerning the tree of the knowledge of good and evil [...][Continue Reading...]

Adam and Eve didn’t have immortal souls. In fact, the typical idea of an “immortal soul” isn’t one that’s from the Bible (see the answer to ‘How is “soul” used in the Bible?‘). Like our ancestors Adam and Eve (Gen. 2:17; 3:19), all people are mortal (1 Cor. 15:21-22). We live for the duration of [...][Continue Reading...]

No. In Genesis 2:16-17, God says that if Adam and Eve were to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they would die. But in Genesis 3:22 he says that if there were to “take also of the tree of life” they would live forever. Therefore they must have been different trees.[Continue Reading...]

The serpent cannot have been Adam because: The serpent was a beast of the field. Genesis 3:1 When questioned by God about the eating of the forbidden fruit, Adam blamed Eve who then blamed the snake. This order would not make sense if Adam was the serpent. God handed out punishments to 3 entities – [...][Continue Reading...]

In the account in Gen 2-3 both Adam and Eve sin by disobeying God and eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. However, Eve is not mentioned in Romans 5 (though Paul does mention her elsewhere, e.g. 1 Tim 2:14). This is presumably because Paul is drawing the contrast between Adam [...][Continue Reading...]

There are millions of years of fossils showing that death was around long before Adam and Eve. In any case, it is impossible to have life without death. Anything eating plants would be causing the death of tiny animals necessary for plant life, not to mention the death of plants themselves. Then there are the [...][Continue Reading...]

I believe that the serpent in the Garden was a literal talking serpent for the following reasons: The punishment decreed on the serpent applied/s to the serpent/snakes, not Eve/women The consequences of this event to humankind have been literal: Most people regard snakes with loathing Snakes have no limbs or wings Womankind suffers greatly through [...][Continue Reading...]